I'm not really a fan of Flacco per say I just don't think the style Lamar plays can beat KC or NE. You beat them by outscoring them 45-40 not 23-20.
Now I think the Ravens defense could hold them to about 30 but do I think Lamar can score more (without a defensive and ST TD),? I don't so even though I doubt Flacco would I at least know he CAN.
you only beat them by outscoring them if you have an offence that can outscore them - the way to beat them is the exact opposite which is to shorten the number of possessions in the game and then make sure your offence converts in the redzone...
the exact way to beat the chiefs is the same way we went about beating the saints (which we couldnt in the end because we salted no time off the clock in the 2nd half and then had to come from behind to nearly tie)
the other reason you dont play flacco vs the chiefs is because the best part of their defence is their pass rush and an immobile coming off a hip injury flacco with an interior OL of Skura and Lewis with no zone-read/RPO to hold the pass rush is a recipe for a multi-sack passing obliteration - lamar freezes the edge defenders and is too fast for the interior defenders (except for geno atkins apparently lol) to get there from behind
Dee Ford, Chris Jones and Justin Houston have been playing phenomenally the last few weeks as a front for the chiefs and the Rams OL couldnt stop them either in a straight up hat-on-hat fight - so the way to slow that rush down is to turn it into 11 v 11 not 10 v 11